Definitions for Americanəˈmɛr ɪ kən

This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word American

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

American(noun)

a native or inhabitant of the United States

American English, American language, American(noun)

the English language as used in the United States

American(adj)

a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country

American(adj)

of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture

"American citizens"; "American English"; "the American dream"

American(adj)

of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas

"the American hemisphere"; "American flora and fauna"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

American(Noun)

An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American.

Every American's origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Asia and a migration to the New World over frozen Bering Strait turns out to be correct.

American(Noun)

A person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America.

She went from Mexico to the USA before she gave birth, so her child would be an American.

American(Adjective)

Of or pertaining to the Americas. More often this is specified as either "North American" or "South American."

American(Adjective)

Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture.

American(ProperNoun)

The English language as spoken in the USA; American English.

Origin: * , or via Modified Latin Americanus with the same etymology.

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

American(adj)

of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians

American(adj)

of or pertaining to the United States

American(noun)

a native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States

Origin: [Named from Americus Vespucius.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

American

a-mer′ik-an, adj. pertaining to America, esp. to the United States.—n. a native of America.—v.t.Amer′icanise, to render American.—n.Amer′icanism, a custom, characteristic, word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Americans: condition of being an American citizen: devotion to American institutions. [From America, so called unfairly from Amerigo Vespucci, a navigator who explored a small part of South America seven years after the first voyage of Columbus.]